[AOG] NPC Summoning

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

Description:

This is very simple(ish) system, but affective way of doing summons for your game using the event system. It also works with PvP but the player must be attacked (Or have met a condition you set), it also works with a criminal system I have so if a player is a criminal the summon will attack. Can set different conditions based on your game.

 

Video:

https://www.ascensiongamedev.com/resources/filehost/ac1bd0b14a7dd8123876ca9015247bc8.mp4

 

Process:

Use a spell or Item event to "Summon" your NPC Minions

 

Issue:

Player will not get experience when a summon kills a NPC.

PvP does not seem to be working anymore... I am investigating to find a solution.

 

Addon:

None

 

Note: Below build is for my space game, change naming of variables and such to suit your game style.

 

Build: 

1. First we need a two player variables as this is key to the system working correctly and have the NPC not attack the player, PVP, as well as so other players summons do not conflict:

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Main Variable (Integer)

 

Optional - Criminal Variable (Boolean)

 

2. Let create the NPC we want to summon. This system utilises NPC vs NPC, so as you add more NPCs to you game you will have to amend this NPC and other NPCs you add so they can attack eachover:

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Behavior:

Make sure the behavior of the NPC is Aggressive, Swarm is optional.

 

NPC Vs NPC:

 

Now the bit that makes all this work, the conditions...

 

Player Friend/Protector:

So what is happening here? We are setting the condition so "Drone Deploy Player Variable" must be EQUAL to "Drone Deploy Player Variable"... This will make more sense later on

 

Should Not Attack Player on Sight:

You can customise this bit based on your game conditions, for my game I want a summon to attack "Criminal" Players on sight, later on I will add so if the player is a "Criminal himself" then it wont. Will also work great for factions and such.

 

This part is so the summoned NPC/s wont attack other players on sight, so you could add level ranges or something different if you dont want that to happen.

 

3. Now lets make the common event which will spawn/summon our minions:

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Very simple but affecting solution...

 

First we set the "Player Variable - Deploy Drone" to a random number between 1 to 1000000000. This is so the player who summoned will be assigned a random number, and that NPC wont attack the person who generated that number as it will match, we set this in the last stage in "Player Friend/Protector".

 

Then we just summon/spawn then NPC around the player (In this example we summon 3 Civ Drones):

 

To add a timer that will despawn the NPCs summoned after a set amount of time add this:

 

 

4. Lastly we build the spell or item that you want to use to summon your minions:

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Add a cooldown of 60 seconds (60000ms) if you dont want the player to spam summons, this will coincide with the event timer.

 

 

Thats it...simple really using the powerful event system of intersect

 

Enjoy

[Weylon Santana]

Man, what a simple and impressive system.  I liked very much.  The "1 in 1000000000" part took me by surprise.  I would like to know the following: What will come next?

 

In the sense that we will not be able to use the "despawn npc" command as it would kill all monsters on the map in question.  And also they will not follow the player, the intersect does not allow you to know it well.  Then they will be summoned and will help against a simple npc, player or boss.  But What will come next?

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

8 hours ago, Weylon Santana said:

Man, what a simple and impressive system.  I liked very much.  The "1 in 1000000000" part took me by surprise.  I would like to know the following: What will come next?

 

In the sense that we will not be able to use the "despawn npc" command as it would kill all monsters on the map in question.  And also they will not follow the player, the intersect does not allow you to know it well.  Then they will be summoned and will help against a simple npc, player or boss.  But What will come next?

 

Thanks yeah the variable is key to the system working as it makes sure that each NPC that is summoned won attack its owner.

 

Despawning NPCs from events now only despawns the NPCs that  were spawned by event. So just add a wait command and despawn like this:

 

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Follow the player I dont think we can have, not until source and I add a few more functions to the event system.

 

Also I had a message of someone saying that PvP with the system doesnt work, but Im sure it did.

[AisenArvalis]

One drawback to this that I can see is that the NPC kills don't give you any experience points. But other than that this is a really good system

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

6 minutes ago, AisenArvalis said:

One drawback to this that I can see is that the NPC kills don't give you any experience points. But other than that this is a really good system

 

Ah yeah forgot to mention that, I think its a 50/50 if this is a good thing or not. Means players can just use summons all the time to kill stuff.

 

Ive added that to Issues. Thanks

[Weylon Santana]

54 minutes ago, Ainz Ooal Gown said:

 

Thanks yeah the variable is key to the system working as it makes sure that each NPC that is summoned won attack its owner.

 

Despawning NPCs from events now only despawns the NPCs that  were spawned by event. So just add a wait command and despawn like this:

 

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Follow the player I dont think we can have, not until source and I add a few more functions to the event system.

 

Also I had a message of someone saying that PvP with the system doesnt work, but Im sure it did.

I did not know that.  As far as I can remember when I tried to summon monsters and then use despawn they all disappeared which would be bad against a boss.  This is already a step forward.

 

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

1 minute ago, Weylon Santana said:

I did not know that.  As far as I can remember when I tried to summon monsters and then use despawn they all disappeared which would be bad against a boss.  This is already a step forward.

 

 

Yeah think it was a fix? Becuase It used to delete every NPC on the map, but when I tried it the other week it didnt so I got excited haha as opens possiblities...

[Weylon Santana]

4 minutes ago, Ainz Ooal Gown said:

 

Yeah think it was a fix? Becuase It used to delete every NPC on the map, but when I tried it the other week it didnt so I got excited haha as opens possiblities...

I agree with you. Haha

[Miharukun]

2 hours ago, Ainz Ooal Gown said:

Also I had a message of someone saying that PvP with the system doesnt work, but Im sure it did.

Using Player Variable makes other players count as "Friendly" too, I tried it. Atm to make it possible for PvP, in the Friendly conditions, I use "Class is" and then put Necromancer, it won't attack other Necromancer class tho xD 

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

1 minute ago, Miharukun said:

Using Player Variable makes other players count as "Friendly" too, I tried it. Atm to make it possible for PvP, in the Friendly conditions, I use "Class is" and then put Necromancer, it won't attack other Necromancer class tho xD 

 

Good idea but it will make it so necromancers cant attack eachover with summons. My game doesnt really use classes as I dont like restrictions. I dont think player variables should work that way so Ive asked the question.

[Miharukun]

Just now, Ainz Ooal Gown said:

 

Good idea but it will make it so necromancers cant attack eachover with summons. My game doesnt really use classes as I dont like restrictions. I dont think player variables should work that way so Ive asked the question.

I just saw it, still waiting for the answer too!  This is truly an amazing system, I always wanted to have a necromancer class

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

24 minutes ago, Miharukun said:

I just saw it, still waiting for the answer too!  This is truly an amazing system, I always wanted to have a necromancer class

 

Glad you like it buddy

[Push]

Nice! This is the same system I use for mine.
I can confirm that in Intersect 6.0 the 'despawn NPC' in the same event command will only despawn the NPCs that was summoned.

Another work around for despawning is to give the NPC a spell that will 'tick' away HP slowly using the DOT box.

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

1 hour ago, CosakiGames said:

Nice! This is the same system I use for mine.
I can confirm that in Intersect 6.0 the 'despawn NPC' in the same event command will only despawn the NPCs that was summoned.

Another work around for despawning is to give the NPC a spell that will 'tick' away HP slowly using the DOT box.

 

 

I like that idea of giving a NPC a spell that damages it overtime, nice one cheers!

[emparin]

la invocación no me sigue, osea por ahora he conseguido que no ataque a otros jugadores y que si ataque a los npc, pero no se como hacer que se mantenga a cierta distancia de mi

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

2 minutes ago, emparin said:

la invocación no me sigue, osea por ahora he conseguido que no ataque a otros jugadores y que si ataque a los npc, pero no se como hacer que se mantenga a cierta distancia de mi

 

English: the summoning doesn't follow me, I mean for now I have managed not to attack other players and to attack the npc, but I don't know how to make it stay at a certain distance from me

 

Please use english in english part of forum.

 

This tutorial event does not have the ability to follow the player character. Its just a once off summon to fight anything that attacks the player within the sight range of the summoned NPC.

[Habib]

Hi AOG! Would you help me finding out a way to build a "tower defense" system? 
I'd like to summon some minions daily, so I can build my fortress in a way that, as much as I summon minions, stronger will be my fortress. 

First thing I see is I can't summon twice the same spell. It only summons once, til the NPC despawn, then I can summon again. 
And I need to setup someway to, whoever enters my fortress (npc or player), get attacked.

 

Another thing I'd like is to have my summon attacking resources. Can you help me?

Thanks AOG, nice system!

[Ainz Ooal Gown]

3 hours ago, Habib said:

Hi AOG! Would you help me finding out a way to build a "tower defense" system? 
I'd like to summon some minions daily, so I can build my fortress in a way that, as much as I summon minions, stronger will be my fortress. 

First thing I see is I can't summon twice the same spell. It only summons once, til the NPC despawn, then I can summon again. 
And I need to setup someway to, whoever enters my fortress (npc or player), get attacked.

 

Another thing I'd like is to have my summon attacking resources. Can you help me?

Thanks AOG, nice system!

 

I have not looked at this in a very long time and probs wont anytime soon sorry. You will have to figure it out yourself, but now intersect is open source it would be best to hardcode something like this.

[Lunam]

In Order to get this to work, and work with PvP, you must instead create 2 PlayerVariables:

 

1. PlayerID: Integer - will be set randomly between 0 and maximum(i set this when the player spawns for the first time)
2. SummonID: Integer - will be set in you NPC Spawn event just before the Spawn NPC command. Set this ID to be the same as the PlayerID

Now, in the NPC, select the Protection/Friendly button and make a condition to see if the SummonID = PlayerID

 

Boom, PvP summons that don't attack you.

 

Apparently I could only get it to work once or twice.

 

 

Edit: Found a solution, working on a tut soon. Will credit OP